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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, v. t. imp.  p. p. frothed; p. pr.  vb. n..
   frothing.
   1. to cause to foam.
      1913 webster

   2. to spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
      1913 webster

            he . . . froths treason at his mouth. --dryden.
      1913 webster

            is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
                                                  --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   3. to cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
      1913 webster
see also:
frothed frothing 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, v. i.
   to throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer
   froths; a horse froths.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, n. oe. frothe, icel. froetha; akin to dan.
   fraade, sw. fradga, as. =afreoethan to froth.
   1913 webster
   1. the bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or
      agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by
      disease or nervous excitement.
      1913 webster

   2. any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric
      without thought. --johnson.
      1913 webster

            it was a long speech, but all froth.  --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   3. light, unsubstantial matter. --tusser.
      1913 webster

   froth insect zool., the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; --
      called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
      

   froth spit. see cuckoo spit, under cuckoo.
      1913 webster
see also:
froth insect froth spit froth worm froth fly froth spit cuckoo spit 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
froth
     n : a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid syn: foam
     v 1: form bubbles; "the boiling soup was frothing"; "the river
          was foaming"; "sparkling water" syn: foam, fizz, effervesce,
           sparkle
     2: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "the river foamed"
        syn: spume, suds
see also:
foam fizz effervesce sparkle spume suds 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
132 moby thesaurus words for "froth":
   aerate, air, alluvion, alluvium, ash, babble, beat, breakers,
   bric-a-brac, bubble, bubbles, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit,
   chip, cinder, clinker, cobweb, collar, cork, cream, deposition,
   deposits, details, diluvium, down, draff, dregs, dribble, drivel,
   drool, dross, dust, effervesce, ember, ether, expectoration, fairy,
   feather, feces, fizz, flippancy, flue, fluff, foam, frivolity,
   fuzz, gab, gas, gibberish, gimcrackery, gossamer, grounds, head,
   hot air, knickknackery, lather, lees, levity, lightness, loess,
   mantle, meringue, minutiae, moraine, mote, mousse, mouth-watering,
   nonsense, offscum, peanuts, piffle, plash, precipitate,
   precipitation, ptyalism, puff, rubbish, saliva, salivate,
   salivation, scoria, scud, scum, sea foam, sediment, settlings,
   shower, sialagogue, silt, sinter, slabber, slag, slaver, slobber,
   slosh, small beer, small change, smut, soapsuds, soot, souffle,
   sparge, spatter, spindrift, spit, spittle, splash, splatter,
   sponge, spoondrift, spray, sprinkle, spume, sputum, stinging,
   straw, sublimate, sud, suds, surf, swash, thistledown, trash,
   trifles, trivia, trumpery, twaddle, whip, whisk, white water,
   yeast





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